Institution: O.S. Organizzazioni Speciali

Address: Fra’ P. Sarpi 7/a, 50136 FIRENZE (ITALY)

Telephone – Fax:055/6236501 - 0557669446

E mail:info@osnet.it

Web Site:www.osnet.it

Field of activity

test development and publishing in those areas: work and organisational, clinical, guidance and educational

research on new assessment instruments and methodologies, in work, guidance and educational fields

training for teachers and for educational and giudance professionals

consulting and training in the work psychology for government organisations and companies

training on psychology field, for clinical and work psychologists

scientific and information journal publishing

Origin and evolution
Since its foundation in Florence (1950) O.S. has dealt with psychological assessment instruments and methodologies develpment in the occupational, clinical and educational fields. Since 1953 O.S. has had a continous collaboration with the most representative test publishing houses in the world. Now O.S. translates, adapts and publishes selected material of all the major European and American test publishers and distributes directly all the test material on request of its customers.

Size
SME’s

Experiences in the orientation field:
in 1960 O.S. published IIP-Inventario degli Interessi professionali by G.F. Kuder, in 1973 O.S. published Inventario degli Interessi Professionali by M. Viglietti; in the years O.S. has published many others tests (PPS by Edwards, PVA by Gough and SIV by Gordon). New tests on educational and professional guidance: OPTIMIST – Educational Guidance Portfolio for Ages 11 to 14, S. Soresi and L. Nota (University of Padova), Publication date: 2001

Aims: educational guidance

Target: first level secondary school students (11 to 14)

Administration time: 15/20 min. each test

Sample: 600 to 1400 students

Users: educational guidance professionals, teachers, guidance psychologists

MAGELLANO UNIVERSITY , Edit by S. Soresi (University of Padova), Publication date: 1995 (revised on 2001)

Aims: university guidance

Target: high school students (17 to 19)

Administration time: 2 hours

Items: 405

Sample: 7796 high school and university students (paper and pencil version); 85.000 high school students (CD-Rom version)

Users: educational guidance professionals, teachers, guidance psychologists

MAGELLANO LAVORO/ORIENTALAVORO, S. Soresi (University of Padova), Publication date: 2001

Aims: professional guidance

Target: adolescents and young people (from 17)

Administration time: 1,5 hours

Items: 263

Sample: 1000 high school students

Users: professional guidance operators, teachers, guidance psychologists

Staff of Bussola project
Name & Surname	e-mail
Jacopo Tarantino
Elena Mostardini
Silvia Clarotti